barring

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

prep. Apart from the occurrence of; excepting: Barring strong headwinds, the plane will arrive on schedule.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of bar.

n. the exclusion of someone; blackballing

prep. Unless something happens; excepting; in the absence of

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In mining, timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts.

Excepting; leaving out of the account; apart from: as, barring accidents, I shall be there.

n. In machine-sewing, the sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or upon leather, the bar being composed of a series of long stitches crossed by short stitches. Sometimes called tacking. See buttonholemachine.

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Examples

Stipulate at the outset — as most folks seem to — that barring extraordinary circumstances (unambiguous libel, incitement to harrassment) Americans have a clear constitutional right to anonymous speech and that, again barring exceptional circumstances, other Americans have an equal First Amendment right to name them if they happen to be privy to that information.

Its independence and competence are both highly debatable, with its role in barring largely Sunni candidates from the March election evidence of a confused sense of loyalty to a fractured national ideal.

Evolution issues will continue to be resolved at the state court level ... in short, barring unspeakable terrorist acts or some sort of natural disaster, the next four to eight years are going to look a lot like right now, but with more science guys hanging around in government offices and nominally fewer closeted-gay sex scandals in politics.

Oh, ermined Judge whose duty to society is, now, to doom the ragged criminal to punishment and death, hadst thou never, Man, a duty to discharge in barring up the hundred open gates that wooed him to the felon's dock, and throwing but ajar the portals to a decent life!

He called it a "solid and durable political system dominating a society that has been totally fragmented or atomized," one which will remain "barring explosion from within or battering down from without."